Libyan PM Mahmoud Jibril: 'not known who shot Col Gaddafi'

Mahmoud Jibril, Libya's acting prime minister, said on Saturday investigations
into who shot the country's former leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi were
continuing, but he defended the actions of fighters whose celebrations
around the body have drawn international attention.

3:42PM BST 22 Oct 2011

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, the Prime Minister confirmed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's was alive when captured and that crossfire may have been heard, but he said it was still not known who pulled the trigger.

He said according to the coroner's report Muammar Gaddafi was wounded.

"It seems that he was involved in a battle between the Qatari security brigades of Gaddafi and the freedom fighters. And he was hiding in some sort of a sewage tube. One of the mercenaries, he's a Mauritanian, when he was caught he told the freedom fighters that Gaddafi was hiding in the tube," said Mr Jibril.

"So they went there and they brought him out and they were taking him to that truck to take him to a field hospital.

"On their way they got in crossfire between the freedom fighters and the security brigades. He was shot in the head. We don't know whether he was shot by the freedom fighters or the security brigades."

He admitted that he did not know att what point on that journey Gaddafi was killed.

He said he expected the funeral to take place during the next two days and done according to traditional Islamic rules. He went on to but defend the actions of fighters whose celebrations around the body

"You have to appreciate the agony those people went through for 42 years," he said.